xi, 468 pages ; 24 cm

Rates and evaluates one hundred noteworthy novels, from the medieval Japanese "Tale of Genji" to contemporary works, and provides summaries, details about their origins, critical opinions, and an account of their impact

Includes index

Don Quixote -- War and peace -- Ulysses -- In search of lost time -- The brothers Karamazov -- Moby-Dick -- Madame Bovary -- Middlemarch -- The magic mountain -- The tale of Genji -- Emma -- Bleak House -- Anna Karenina -- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Tom Jones -- Great expectations -- Absalom, Absalom! -- The ambassadors -- One hundred years of solitude -- The great Gatsby -- To the lighthouse -- Crime and punishment -- The sound and the fury -- Vanity fair -- Invisible man -- Finnegans wake -- The man without qualities -- Gravity's rainbow -- The portrait of a lady -- Women in love -- The red and the black -- Tristram Shandy -- Dead souls -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles -- Buddenbrooks -- Le père Goriot -- A portrait of the artist as a young man -- Wuthering heights -- The tin drum -- Molloy, Malone dies, the unnamable -- Pride and prejudice -- The scarlet letter -- Fathers and sons -- Nostromo -- Beloved -- An American tragedy -- Lolita -- The golden notebook -- Clarissa -- Dream of the red chamber

The trial -- Jane Eyre -- The red badge of courage -- The grapes of wrath -- Petersburg -- Things fall apart -- The princess of Cleves -- The stranger -- My Ántonia -- The counterfeiters -- The age of innocence -- The good soldier -- The awakening -- A passage to India -- Herzog -- Germinal -- Call it sleep -- U.S.A. trilogy -- Hunger -- Berlin Alexanderplatz -- Cities of salt -- The death of Artemio Cruz -- A farewell to arms -- Brideshead revisited -- The last chronicle of Barset -- The Pickwick papers -- Robinson Crusoe -- The sorrows of young Werther -- Candide -- Native son -- Under the volcano -- Oblomov -- Their eyes were watching God -- Waverley -- Snow country -- Nineteen Eighty-four -- The betrothed -- The last of the Mohicans -- Uncle Tom's cabin -- Les Misérables -- On the road -- Frankenstein -- The leopard -- The catcher in the rye -- The woman in white -- The good soldier Švejk -- Dracula -- The three musketeers -- The hound of the Baskervilles -- Gone with the wind -- Novels by year of publication -- A second hundred (honorable mentions)

Includes bibliographical references and index

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